[TriLUG] OT: BIOS question

jbrigman at nc.rr.com jbrigman at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 13 11:20:50 EST 2007


> Yes, I did remove the battery, but didn't power it on with the battery
> out. I'll give that a go before trying it with another graphics card.

Unless the battery is a dead-short (never seen that in a "coin cell" 
before) that won't do anything.

The suggestions of stripping down the system are good: that technique 
will even allow the solution of multiple simultaneous hardware failures 
(seen that twice, solved that way) Sometimes you've got to go to the 
extent of pulling the motherboard/power supply from the case. There's a 
threaded standoff near where the BIOS chip usually sits that can ground 
the traces associated with the BIOS chip.

JKB



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